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History’s lesson for humankind is that there are no friends when it comes to international relations. Its only self-interest which comes in the garb of “friendly relations “. Friendship lasts...

You would say the times have changed, and, old ideas are no longer relevant May be, but certainly, not all of them. Top leadership is more a punishment than a...

While Iran seeks the removal of sanctions, some officials are not keen to reenter direct talks with the US. President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif are under...

Analysts suggest Biden administration could end the near-unconditional support that Riyadh has enjoyed over the years. Abubakr Al-Shamahi US President-elect Joe Biden has made his position on Saudi Arabia and...

The Rot in U.S. Political Institutions Runs Deeper Than Donald Trump By Larry Diamond (Foreign Affairs) Regardless of who wins the 2020 presidential election, the health of American democracy will...

Washington: US President Donald Trump on Friday alleged that the Democrats sabotaged the election process and blamed ‘Big Media, Big Money and Big Tech’ for coming to their aid. He...

ANDREW BACEVICH In this year’s presidential election campaign, candidates have largely sidestepped the role of armed force as an instrument of U.S. policy. The United States remains the world’s preeminent...

New Delhi, June 04 (DN&V): The United Nations sanctions monitors, in a report to the UN Security Council, have said the Taliban, especially the Haqqani Network branch, maintains close ties...

A Chinese laboratory has been developing a drug it believes has the power to bring the coronavirus pandemic to a halt.The outbreak first emerged in China late last year before...

New Delhi, May 12 (DN&V) Saudi Arabia has announced a slew of "painful" austerity measures to tide over the crisis of cheap oil. The measures include: Suspending the cost of...

John Bowden A report from China's top intelligence ministry presented to President Xi Jinping reportedly warned of growing anti-Chinese sentiment around the world and raised the possibility of military conflict...

DN&V Correspondent New Delhi: With the deadly corona virus ravaging the world a massive search for the drug has been launched globally to effectively tame the virus. Nearly 200 pharmaceutical...

Fauci told National Geographic “a number of very qualified evolutionary biologists" had thrown water on the theories touted by President Trump. Nick Visser Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious...

Carolyn Y. Johnson Ian Haydon, a healthy 29-year-old, reported to a medical clinic in Seattle for a momentous blood draw last week. “Oh yeah,” said the nurse taking his blood....

Rina Bassist Eleven ambassadors of European countries registered a demarche with Israel’s Foreign Ministry on April 30, warning against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to annex parts of the...

Brian Mastroianni While some research has been done on ultraviolet radiation as a way to kill microorganisms, it is not sanctioned as a COVID-19 therapy. The research that’s been done...

By Chad P. Bown For three years, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has attacked the global trading system. Now other forces are battering international trade. The pandemic spread...

By Ishaan Tharoor with Ruby Mellen The coronavirus pandemic may be ravaging the world, but it proved the ultimate boon to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The public health emergency...

New Delhi: Wearing a face mask often helps people feel protected and reassured. But can a surgical face mask keep you from being exposed to or transmitting certain infectious diseases?...

By Ishaan Tharoor, with Ruby Mellen The coronavirus pandemic has spiked tensions between China and the United States. In Washington, hard-line lawmakers in Congress are pushing punitive legislation against Beijing,...

Dubai residents are now allowed to move about freely as of April 25 between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., according to a directive from Dubai's Supreme Committee of Crisis and...

New Delhi, April 28: The antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine is being widely promoted as a “cure” for COVID-19, but we still lack good data on its true benefits. Some small clinical...

DN&V Correspondent New Delhi: Recent studies suggest that up to 80 percent of people with SARS-CoV-2 are silent carriers. Testing of pregnant women in New York revealed that most who...

By Ishaan Tharoor President Trump called his plan for Middle East “peace” an “unprecedented” development that swept past “even the most well-intentioned plans” of his predecessors. It is in keeping...

BRANKO MILANOVIC (Foreign Affairs) Capitalism rules the world. With only the most minor exceptions, the entire globe now organizes economic production the same way: labor is voluntary, capital is mostly...

By Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon (Foreign Affairs) Imagine historians a century from now trying to decide which foreign power the United States feared most in the decades from the...

By William D. Hartung (Information Clearing House) It’s no secret that Donald Trump is one of the most aggressive arms salesmen in history. How do we know? Because he tells...

Laura Rozen November 12, 2019 (Al Monitor) Washington — Hoping to try to revive diplomatic efforts to get the United States and Iran back to the table, and to keep...

BY ADAM TAYLOR (The Washington Post) New York : It’s hardly a secret that the Trump administration embraces religion. The president has spoken of his defense of “Judeo-Christian values,” while...

Fehim Tastekin (Al-Monitor) Although Turkey is trying to curb operations against Syrian opposition groups in Idlib, back-to-back American operations hunting down notable Islamic State (IS) members have complicated Ankara’s efforts...

Bill Gates Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation I’ve been learning about (and funding) work on Alzheimer’s Disease for a few years now. In a wrap-up blog post at the...

Daily News and Views Baghdad: At least three Iraqi protesters have been killed during an attack on the Iranian consulate in the Shia holy city of Karbala, according to security...

Washington : On December 14, in a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly announced that he would order U.S. forces to withdraw from...

By Philip Giraldi August 07, 2019 "Information Clearing House" - If you have been wondering when the twenty Democratic aspirants for the presidency will begin a serious discussion of American...

Bruce Riedel American troops are coming back 16 years after they left Saudi Arabia, King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud announced on Saturday. According to press reports hundreds of American...

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian My old mother is very ill, and so I have spent the last couple of weeks with her in Iran. My stay here has afforded me...

During a speech May 22 to university students, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed a number of significant issues, including the future of the country’s political system and the...

By Rajan Kumar As Sri Lanka endeavours to overcome the enormity of the Islamic State (IS) coordinated terrorist attack which killed 253 people last month, there are reasons for the...

Alphabet Inc's Google has barred phone maker Huawei from some updates to the Android operating system, in a blow to the Chinese technology company that the US government has sought...

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump issued an ominous warning to Iran on Sunday, suggesting that if the Islamic republic attacks American interests, it will be destroyed. "If Iran wants to...

Makram Najmuddine (al-monitor) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo decided May 8 to cancel his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and instead head to Iraq. The top US diplomat...

Alireza Noori (al-monitor) May 10 Amid rising US pressure, Iran and Russia appear to be gearing toward forging closer military and defence ties. Last week, the commander of the regular...

Bruce Riedel (al-monitor.com) As the United States ups the pressure on Iran, the Donald Trump administration is relying on Tehran's archenemy and long time US ally Saudi Arabia to shore...

Laura Rozen (al-monitor.com) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump Thursday urged Iran to call him, and said the United States and Iran could make a fair deal. “What I would like...

New Delhi: American news magazine Time has featured Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the cover page of its May 20 issue with a headline that may create controversy across the...

What the World’s Diplomats Really Think of Trump’s Endgame in Iran By Sanam Vakil (Foreign Affairs) A year ago, U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal on...

Hamidreza Azizi US President Donald Trump’s recent decision not to extend the sanctions waivers for the purchase of Iranian oil has been met with widespread reaction around the world. One...

Teheran: As a third day of protests erupted across major Iranian cities over the country’s worsening economic situation, the clergy in Iran is looking inward. Rather than only pointing the...

“It’s good for the country, good for them, good for us and good for the world. No preconditions. If they want to meet, I’ll meet,” US President Donald Trump said at a...

By C. Christine Fair (Foreign Affairs) Newcomers to Pakistani politics greeted the outcome of Wednesday’s general election—an apparent victory for former cricket star Imran Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party—with optimism. They were...

Teheran: After the Iranian authorities arrested Instagram dancer Maedeh Hojabri and forced her to confess to violating "moral norms" on state television, Iranians have begun posting their own dancing videos to show support....

Teheran: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani  is not giving in to conservative and reformist critics in the wake of growing protests over the miserable state of Iran’s economy, instead intensifying his...

The purse-string holders in the Senate today cleared an annual foreign aid spending bill that allocates $150 million in Syrian stabilization assistance in an apparent rebuke of Trump’s aid freeze....

Beirut: Another layer in the battle for Syria has been evident for years yet has only now come to the world’s attention. To Iran and Israel, this battle lies at the...

Baghdad: In the wake of the sudden coalition deal struck between Muqtada al-Sadr's Sairoon Alliance and the pro-Iran Fatah Alliance on June 12, the allied parties seem to be trying to soften...

Singapore: US President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un concluded an extraordinary summit on Tuesday with lofty promises by the American president to take care of a "very dangerous...

New Delhi: On June 19, 2014 a few miles outside Noma, Alaska, a biologist Wally Johnson trapped a male Pacific Golden Plover sitting on a nest.  After weighing and measuring...

Riyadh, June 5: Abandoning its rigid and decades old anti-women policies the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia today issued driver’s licences to 10 women. So far women in Saudi Arabia were...

The Gap Between Expectations and Reality By Joseph Yun Over the past few weeks, the on again-off again U.S.–North Korean summit has drawn a considerable amount of attention to the question...

Belgium: Attacker who shot dead 2 cops and took school cleaning lady hostage killed by police after rampage in eastern city of Liege Belgian news website DHnet.be reported. The attacker...

Reasons behind worst relationship between two middle east nations: Saudi Arabia and Iran

Ankara : Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s coalition scored major points in the recent parliamentary elections with Sadr’s positions against virulent influence peddling and the presence of foreign military forces...

Islamabad, May 24: A Pakistani university has asked male and female students to maintain a distance of six inches when together, causing an uproar in social media against the varsity’s...

London: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been awarded new royal titles by Queen Elizabeth II as the couple tie the knot in Windsor, U.K., on Saturday (May 19, 2018)....

By Sarah Frier (Bloomberg.com) San Francisco: Twitter Inc is taking another step to reduce the amount of harmful content on its site, this time expanding the effort beyond users who...

Gaza City May 16: Israel is facing a growing backlash and new charges of using excessive force, a day after Israeli troops firing from across a border fence killed 59...

Urban Mirror Correspondent New Delhi, May 4: The controversial Cambridge Analytica (CA), the consultancy firm for political parties, has closed down the operation. The CA, facing legal cases in several...

There is tremendous   concern over the way precious time and taxpayers money was lost during the  just concluded Budget session of Parliament.It was shocking that around 250 hours of the...

Make those at the top accountableV.S.Pandey                                                                                                                       Former Secretary,Government  of India . Last week former Secretary , Coal, Government of India ,  Mr H.C.Gupta was convicted by the CBI court...